[chef] Re: knife search ... always fails with a Server Error

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Steve Webb 
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 wrote:
> Hey there.  Chef newbie here.  I've installed chef-server and I have gotten
> many things working, but I'm unable to do a search from the client-side
> using knife as mentioned in the docs.
>
> 
 
>  ~]# chef-solo --version
> Chef: 0.9.12

Chef-solo is a separate tool which allows you to run chef cookbooks
locally on a system without a server. Notable to this conversation, it
doesn't support search. You'll probably want to look over the
architecture document on the wiki:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Architecture

> Steve-Webbs-MacBook-Pro:~ swebb$ knife --version
> Chef: 0.10.0

It would be interesting what version of the server you are running,
presumably 0.9.12. I would wonder if the 0.10.0 knife is backwards
compatible with that old of a Chef release. I would upgrade the server
to 0.9.16 at least.

> Steve-Webbs-MacBook-Pro:~ swebb$ knife search node "*:*"
> ERROR: Server returned error for
> http://chefserver-test1.gnip.com:4000/search/node?q=*%253A*&sort=&start=0&rows=20,
> retrying 1/5 in 3s
> ERROR: Server returned error for
> http://chefserver-test1.gnip.com:4000/search/node?q=*%253A*&sort=&start=0&rows=20,
> retrying 2/5 in 8s


 :~$
 ps ax | grep solr
 5887 ?        Sl     0:02 java -Xmx256M -Xms256M
-Dsolr.data.dir=/var/cache/chef/solr/data
-Dsolr.solr.home=/var/lib/chef/solr
-DSTART=/var/lib/chef/solr/solr-jetty/etc/start.config -jar
/var/lib/chef/solr/solr-jetty/start.jar
 5948 ?        S      0:03 ruby /usr/sbin/chef-solr-indexer -d -P
/var/run/chef/solr-indexer.pid -c /etc/chef/solr.rb -L
/var/log/chef/solr-indexer.log -u chef -g chef
 6348 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto solr

 :~$
 chef-server --version
Chef Server (API) Version: 0.9.16

I can confirm that syntax works on a knife 0.9.16 versus chef 0.9.16.
Have you checked the solr logs yet?

Bryan